Prime

Famous quotes containing the word prime:

“I did not know I was in my prime until afterwards.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Baltimore lay very near the immense protein factory of Chesapeake Bay, and out of the bay it ate divinely. I well recall the time when prime hard crabs of the channel species, blue in color, at least eight inches in length along the shell, and with snow-white meat almost as firm as soap, were hawked in Hollins Street of Summer mornings at ten cents a dozen.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)

“I came there as prime steak and now I feel like low-grade hamburger.”
—Joycelyn Elders (b. 1933)